There was a lot of bad feeling left over from the War between the States, and not only between the North and South. Britain had allowed Confederate navy ships to use her ports, and after that, there wasn't much trust between them. Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy, now with the U.S. secret service, had discovered an anarchist plot to attack Canada from U.S. soil, and she knew it had to be stopped. She soon found an ally in the Remittance Kid—but the Kid was working for the British...Could Belle really trust him...?
While complete in itself the events recorded in this volume precede those which take place in THE WHIP AND THE WAR LANCE (Calamity Jane #11). This was caused by the amount of information placed at the author's disposal from various sources making the whole of too great length to be accommodated in one book and also explains why this title is placed with the Calamity Jane series in the chronological list., although the character of Calamity Jane does not appear in this volume.